AgribusinessThe US Department of Agriculture has published an American Biofuels Trade Outlook after ethanol exports reached 2.2 billion gallons worth $4.7 billion in 2025, the largest year on record.
AgrotechThe National Agricultural Statistics Service has launched AgInsights, an interactive application meant to make survey and commodity data easier for growers to find and use.
AgrotechA USDA data modernisation plan announced at the Farm Progress Show promises fewer survey burdens on producers and faster, more usable crop and livestock estimates.
LivestockA USDA package centred on a new insurance endorsement would pay ranchers the difference when a heifer is worth more at slaughter than as breeding stock, alongside loans for regional processors.
AgribusinessFruit, vegetable and nursery growers spend nearly three times the American average on labour, while corn farms spend 4 percent of their cash expenses on it.
AgribusinessFifty-eight percent of farms run entirely by beginning operators worked 49 acres or fewer in 2022, against 38 percent of established farms.
AgribusinessGrants of up to $200,000 per project will pay for refrigeration in the middle of the food assistance supply chain, letting emergency food networks handle meat, dairy and fresh produce.
CropsNASS has begun its County Agricultural Production Survey, the questionnaire behind the only official yearly crop estimates the United States publishes at county level.
CropsNASS has closed the Agricultural Yield Survey behind the August Crop Production report, and says it made greater use of acreage already filed with the Farm Service Agency to cut what it asks of growers.
FruitsThe 2025 American pistachio crop was the largest ever, and for the first time the nut was eaten more widely at home than walnuts or pecans.
LivestockA new sterile fly dispersal facility in Douglas, Arizona, would join plants in Texas, Mexico and Panama in the campaign to push New World screwworm back out of North America.
LivestockDouglas, Arizona reopens to cattle on 24 August, with New Mexico ports to follow, and every animal crossing will be inspected for New World screwworm.
LivestockThere were 94.2 million cattle and calves on American farms on 1 July 2026, up slightly on a year earlier, according to the USDA Cattle report.
